THE AUTOTUTOR 3 ARCHITECTURE - A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS

Patrick Chipman, Andrew Olney, Arthur C. Graesser

2005

Abstract

Providing high quality of service over the Internet to a variety of clients while simultaneously providing good pedagogy and extensibility for content creators and developers are key issues in the design of the computational architecture of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). In this paper, we describe an ITS architecture that attempts to address both issues using a distributed hub-and-spoke metaphor similar to that of the DARPA Galaxy Communicator. This architecture is described in the context of the natural language ITS that uses it, AutoTutor 3.

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Chipman P., Olney A. and C. Graesser A. (2005). THE AUTOTUTOR 3 ARCHITECTURE - A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 972-8865-20-1, pages 466-473. DOI: 10.5220/0001233504660473


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@conference{webist05,
author={Patrick Chipman and Andrew Olney and Arthur C. Graesser},
title={THE AUTOTUTOR 3 ARCHITECTURE - A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2005},
pages={466-473},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001233504660473},
isbn={972-8865-20-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - THE AUTOTUTOR 3 ARCHITECTURE - A software architecture for an expandable, high-availability ITS
SN - 972-8865-20-1
AU - Chipman P.
AU - Olney A.
AU - C. Graesser A.
PY - 2005
SP - 466
EP - 473
DO - 10.5220/0001233504660473